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VISITING LECTURE
T.J. Gottesdiener—SOM in New York: The Complex Role of the Architect in the Transformation of the City
Thursday, October 14
The Great Hall and Zoom | 6:30 PM
SOM Managing Partner T.J. Gottesdiener, FAIA AR'79 has played a pivotal role in realizing some of the firm’s most significant projects in New York City, where he has navigated the often competing interests of residents, commuters, developers, advocacy groups, and regulatory agencies. In this lecture, Gottesdiener will present the evolution of four neighborhoods in Manhattan over his four-decade career. In the process, he will discuss the architect’s intricate role as mediator, designer, civic leader, visionary, and catalyst for moving projects from concept to completion.
The presentation will be followed by a conversation with Dean Nader Tehrani and a Q&A.
This lecture is made possible by the generous support of the YC Foundation, Inc., New York.
This event is free and accessible to the public for in-person attendance in The Great Hall and virtual attendance through Zoom. Lecture attendees are required register in advance, show proof of vaccination and wear a facial covering indoors.
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STUDENT LECTURE SERIES
The Dredge Research Collaborative: Designing with Sediment
Thursday, October 7
Zoom | 7:30 PM
The Dredge Research Collaborative is an independent 501c3 nonprofit organization which investigates human sediment handling practices, through publications, events, and other projects. Our mission is to improve sediment management through design research, building public knowledge, and facilitating transdisciplinary conversation.
Gena Wirth, RLA, is Design Principal at SCAPE. She works with cities, community advocates, and landowners to reveal the ecological and cultural potential of public landscapes. As Design Principal, Gena translates research into practice and leads the design of complex urban landscapes including public and private waterfronts, regional trail systems, parks, plazas, and resilience plans. She is a member of the Dredge Research Collaborative and lives in New York City.
Brian Davis is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Davis was the 2019 American Academy Rome Prize recipient in Landscape Architecture. Prior to joining UVA, he was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University and has practiced landscape architecture in Buenos Aires and New York City. He is a registered landscape architect and member of the Dredge Research Collaborative. His work focuses on ports, rivers, and cities, and especially their formal interrelations through time.
The lecture will be followed by a public discussion moderated by Dov Diamond.
This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Registration is required, please register in advance here.
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PLURIVERSAL, BEWILDERED, AND OTHERWISE
Cohabitation Strategies and Urban Front: Urban Practice After the Pandemic
Tuesday, October 12
315F and Zoom | 12:00 PM
Miguel Robles-Durán is an urbanist with expertise in urban political-ecology and the design/analysis of complex urban systems. He is Associate Professor of Urbanism at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Robles-Durán is a founding member of Urban Front, a transnational consultancy focused on helping progressive public and social sectors address critical urban issues including housing rights, environmental justice, public health, cultural action, sustainable infrastructure and political strategy.
Robles-Durán is also co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), a Rotterdam and New York City based non-profit cooperative committed to radical socio-spatial research, design, and development. For thirteen years, CohStra developed and designed over a dozen urban projects in Europe, North and South America, centered on the development of original action-research methodologies, transdisciplinary frameworks, neighborhood-based initiatives, and the facilitation of community-driven transformative interventions against neoliberal urbanization.
The in-person portion of this event is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. Room 315F. This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Registration is required, please register in advance here.
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VISITING LECTURE
Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan: Houses and Housing
Tuesday, October 19
Zoom | 12:00 PM
Oliver Lütjens (Zurich 1972) and Thomas Padmanabhan (Stuttgart 1970) established Lütjens Padmanabhan Architects in 2007 in Zurich. The practice’s recent work focuses on housing in the residential districts surrounding Zurich and Basel including the award-winning low rent Waldmeisterweg apartment building in Zurich and the Zwhatt Sufficiency lighthouse project in Regensdorf. Oliver and Thomas have taught as assistants at ETH Zurich and as guest professors at TU Munich, EPF Lausanne and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
The presentation will be followed by a conversation with Dean Nader Tehrani and a Q&A.
This event is co-presented with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.
This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Registration is required, please register in advance here.
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CURRENT WORK
Peter Barber: 100 Mile City and Other Stories
Thursday, October 21
Zoom | 12:00 PM
Peter Barber is the founder and director of Peter Barber Architects, a studio reshaping London’s approach to social housing. His residential projects “read as much as urban manifestos as homes,” according to Metropolis, offering provocative, humane responses to today’s compounded urban housing crises. Formally, his work revives a wide variety of historic spatial and stylistic typologies. As one critic recently observed, Barber achieves “a kind of militant, architectural evangelism, pushing boundaries of design, chivvying the political class and renegotiating housing’s wider social contract with the city.”
This event is organized by The Architectural League of New York and co-presented with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.
This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Registration is required, please register in advance here.
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PLURIVERSAL, BEWILDERED, AND OTHERWISE
Sigil Collective—Monuments of the Everyday: Condemned to Hope
Tuesday, October 26
315F and Zoom | 12:00 PM
Sigil is a collective based in Beirut, Marrakech, and New York City. It was founded in 2014 by Salim al-Kadi, Khaled Malas, Alfred Tarazi and Jana Traboulsi. Along with multiple interlocutors and associates, many primarily based in Syria, Sigil has produced a series of representational and site-specific interventions titled ‘monuments of the everyday’. These projects seek to explore the marvellous and terrifying metamorphoses of the Arab landscape marked by historical and contemporary struggles. Sigil’s projects embark on committed inquiries regarding the relations between radical built gestures, the role of narrative in design, and attempts to challenge ongoing violence by evoking transmutational hope. This work has been widely exhibited, published, and collected. Recent commissions include those at the 2019 Milano Design Triennale and the 2019 Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans.
Khaled Malas (architect and art historian) and Salim al-Kadi (architect) will present recent works followed by a discussion moderated by Nora Akawi.
The in-person lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff in room 315F. This event is free and accessible to the public through Zoom. Registration is required, please register in advance here.
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CURRENT WORK
Anne Lacaton, Jean-Phillippe Vassal, Frédéric Druot
Wednesday, November 10
The Great Hall and Zoom | 7:00 PM
This fall and early winter, Current Work spotlights influential and innovative design practices that bring widely varying perspectives to contemporary housing challenges.
Over decades, the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal have collaborated on design and research projects with their long-time friend Frédéric Druot. Together, they have redefined the possibilities of social housing, sustainability, and community agency.
Lacaton, Vassal, and Druot have partnered on several landmark housing projects, guided by the commitment: “never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!” Simultaneously sparing and transformative, their work adapts existing structures to meet the needs of contemporary urban communities.
This event is organized by The Architectural League of New York and co-presented with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union.
This event will be conducted in-person and through Zoom. All participants— both in-person and online— must register in advance, please register here.
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ARCHLOG
Toshiko Mori AR'76 to Receive 2021 Isamu Noguchi Award
Posted: Friday, August 27
Now in its eighth year, the Isamu Noguchi Award is conferred annually on highly accomplished individuals who share Noguchi’s spirit of innovation, global consciousness, and commitment to Eastern and Western cultural exchange. Brett Littman, the museum’s director, notes “The Isamu Noguchi Award was created to recognize exceptional individuals whose creative practice shares a thoughtfulness and boundary-transcending point of view found in Isamu Noguchi’s work and extends his ideals into our own times. We are honored to present this year’s Award to artist Shio Kusaka and architect Toshiko Mori. Their very different work shares a profound sensitivity to nature, playful and clear-minded approaches to materials and function, and quiet reflectiveness, carrying forward and extending Noguchi’s principles.”
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VIDEO ARCHIVE
Watch Our Public Lectures and Events Anytime
Vimeo | On Demand
The School of Architecture records, archives and publishes videos of public programs to open access and accommodate asynchronous learning and research for audiences in different time zones. You may visit our Vimeo channel for access to all our video content.
You may also use Cooper website's search bar to look for a particular lecture title or a lecturer's name to find embedded videos of their events with us, if any are available, along with other pertinent event and bio information.
If you recently missed a lecture or event you wanted to see, make sure to check out the Fall 2020 and the Spring 2021 Lecture and Events Lists. Links to earlier semester event lists are found at the bottom of their respective event pages.
Our public programs are free and recorded for access anytime.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Coronavirus Response
For campus-wide COVID-19 updates and resources, please visit The Cooper Union's website.
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Nader Tehrani, Arch dean/fac | Jury Member | “Aga Khan Award for Architecture announces 2022 Master Jury," Aga Khan Award for Architecture, September 23, 2021 | Keynote Speaker | Architecture Across Continents, October 7, 2021, online
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Young & Ayata (Michael Young, Arch fac) | Talk | Travel To: Young & Ayata in Mexico City, Center for Architecture, October 12, 2021, webinar
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Daniel Libeskind AR’70 | Podcast | Episode 2: The Architects: The Master Plan Daniel Libeskind, WTC Master Plan architect, TOP OF THE WORLD: LESSONS FROM REBUILDING THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, September 15, 2021
Elizabeth Diller AR’79 | Featured | "Dance Review: Bill T. Jones’s Deep Blue Sea Includes Everything and the Kitchen Sink," VULTURE, September 29, 2021
Kay Kollar AR’82 | Book | ATLAS OF INTERIOR DESIGN, Phaidon, October 2021
David Gersten AR’91/Arch fac | Virtual Program | Sunship: Thesis II, Arts Letters & Numbers, October 9-November 20, 2021, virtual
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Homa Shojaie AR’91 | Virtual Program | Sunship: Thesis II, Arts Letters & Numbers, October 9-November 20, 2021, virtual
Gina Pollara AR’91 | Book | LOUIS KAHN: THE IMPORTANCE OF A DRAWING, University of Toronto Press, October 2021
Elizabeth Graziolo AR’95 | Article | "The Architect behind the 2021 Iconic Home," DESIGNERS TODAY, September 23, 2021
Tao DuFour AR’02 | Screening | "Depth of Field: Tao DuFour on We Love We Self Up Here," CORNELL AAP, September 21, 2021
Aida Miron AR’04 | Lecture | Lecture I: A Promissary Note In Urbanism: Hejduk's Drawn and Built Work, Arts, Letters & Numbers, October 14, 2021, online
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International VELUX Award invites students of architecture to explore the role of daylight and sunlight as sources of energy in architecture and inspire new thinking. Deadline: April 15, 2022
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Log 54: Coauthoring (Winter/Spring 2022) is a thematic issue guest edited by Ann Lui and Ana Miljački that recenters architectural discourse around the idea of coauthorship. Deadline: December 1, 2021
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Lyceum Fellowship 2022 Competition: UNDERLAND challenges students to create a solution for the Friesenhahn Cave site, an important paleontological site outside of San Antonio and managed by Concordia University in Austin, Texas. Deadline: May 26, 2022
FREE GROCERIES
The College Student Pantry welcomes all college students in need of groceries. Open first and third Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Stop by 602 E 9th St in the East Village (corner of Ave B) for a free bag of groceries. Ongoing: 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 3PM.
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Harvard Design Press seeks book proposals from researchers, practitioners, theorists, historians, and critics, among others. Deadline: Rolling
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Mophradat: Support the Arts in Beirut Prioritizing those already disadvantaged, and those who influence the community around them in a thoughtful manner, Mophradat offers resources to artists, visual thinkers and architects. Deadline: Rolling
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Write for Urban Omnibus! Shaped by a wide range of contributors In an effort to advance the collective work of city making, Urban Omnibus calls for students and professionals to submit article proposals. Deadline: Ongoing
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